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daughter language

noun

Etymology

Probably a calque of German Tochtersprache.

  1. calqued from Tochtersprache

Definitions

  1. A language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language.

    • English is a daughter language of Old English.
    • French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese are daughter languages of Latin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for daughter language. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA